Has anybody mentioned the summer of 1976 yet?!

[ThatsSomeSheep]

Just having breakfast looking out on 4 inches of snow and still snowing hard and thinking now which lambing field will I go to first?

Just been round mine. All ok thank goodness. Hope your lot are fine too.

TSS

 

[7610 super q]

That was 69 I remember it as it was the year Jodie got married

Should have known we'd never get far......

 

[onthehoof]

For anyone who can't read small print top image is May 75 to August 76. What was so unusual was the drought affected virtually the whole of the British Isles

 

[celtis man]

Don't go on about drought my brother will want to start making small bale hay again I have managed to get him off the idea for the last few years

 

[DeeGee]

Might sound like stereotypical Irish nonsense but; it will have to be a very wet summer if we are not to suffer a drought.
Reserves of water are low as they were in 1976 following a dry year in 75. Nothing in the ditches and an abnormally dry winter have led to exceptionally dry land. We are desperately in need of some rain in the next few weeks but little seems forecast.
Sod's law states that come early June when we want to make hay, the weather will break and it will then be unsettled right through until corn harvest.

 

[yellowfrog]

I was a student on the late Simon Chick's farm near Dorchester in '76. Remember haymaking with very few bales being moved, but a lot of lying in the shade. A fantastic farm though with many enterprises, we could only dream of it now.

hey barleycorn I worked there in 76

 

[jerseycowsman]

I've just had to turn the mains water back on as the borehole can't keep up. I usually only have to do this every other year and then not till August/September time!

 

[H200GT]

Simon has called it!!

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/reports/seasonal-outlook.htm

 

[bobk]

Simon has called it!!

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/reports/seasonal-outlook.htm

Likey likey.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Simon has called it!!

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/reports/seasonal-outlook.htm

Does That means theres rain on the way then?

 

[H200GT]

Does That means theres rain on the way then?

Most likely now someone has called it!!

Weather is a hard thing to predict as we all know, but I think Simon has been pretty good over the years.

What I take from it is that looking at that web site, May is likely to be drier than usual, and early indications are that June will be as well. July is probably anyone's guess this far away, but Simon has had a stab at it.

Certainly here in North West Wales the winter was relatively dry, spring has been very dry but a touch on the cold side so far, been nice in the sun, but the wind has been cold.

 

[celtis man]

I finished drilling spring barley last night need a drop of rain now :

 

[Flossie]

Little bit before my time......but dad seems to think it was quite wet in 1976 till June ? Then scorchio !!!
No sign of the Sex Pistols though so far this year.....

So I believe......Mum and Dad got married 1st June 1976. First night of their honeymoon was in a caravan in the Lakes, sat on the toilet with food poisoning while rain lashed down on the roof Decided to come home the day after, and Dad went mowing for someone for silage.....didn't rain again till September ish?

 

[jerseycowsman]

Apparently, it didn't rain here from April till September

 

[celtis man]

Acording

Apparently, it didn't rain here from April till September

Acording to my mate seegen we had a dry winter before 76 down in kernow

 

[jerseycowsman]

Acording
Acording to my mate seegen we had a dry winter before 76 down in kernow

Had 11mm today

 

[Dockers]

Nothing here yet !!

 

[celtis man]

Todays rain did more good than any thing.

 

[glasshouse]

Should have known we'd never get far......

Those were the best days of my life....
And they were.
Had a family holiday in cotswolds, it was like the sahara, not a blade of green anywhere, all the motorway embankments were either burnt black or being mown by travelling people for hay. Combines were giving off huge dustclouds.
harvest was 2 wks early and our two workers were still off on holiday for a fortnight.
i was 13, dad drove the brand new p reg claas senator and i carted it in.
happy days.
and i think it was worth over £100/ton
so were the spuds.

 

[glasshouse]

sure we had snow on 2nd june , stopped spud planting.